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IfEDFOTCD MATL TOTBTTNTC, ftrEPFORD, OREGON', FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1931 PAGE SEVEN EVIL OF OPIUM TO 'Smoke Joints' Still Easy To Find Despite Government Ban Scribe Tells of Ex perience With Poppy Corn Popi on Stalk in Fall CON.NKAUT. O. (UP) During mod erate early fall weather here, popcorn popped on the etalk at c. C. Ben nett's farm. Farmers puzzled over where the heat came from, finally reasoned it was stored from eummer. Huge state Lake Went Dry JAMESTOWN, Kan. (UP) -The bltf state lake, which formerly covered a large area In the Oreat Salt Marsh near here, has gone dry and thousands of fish with which It was stocked have perished. Sleeping Sickness Toll 13 TOLEDO, O. (UP) Toledo's sleep ing sickness toll has mounted to 13 deaths of two more victims on suc cessive, days. Forty-five cases of the disease have been reported here since Aug, 1. Woman Burned In Can Blast CADIZ, o. (UP) Her supply or cans exhausted, Mrs. Charles Dicker son turned to a molasses can for pre serving some tomatoes. The contain er blew up, burning her severely with the hot fruit. Would Not Be Constables 8TONINQTON. Conn. (UP) cer tain Jobs have no appeal to the un employed. During the textile strlite the warden and burgesses appoint 40 special constables for duty at the mills. All refused to serve, Married In Morgue OLYMPIA, Wash. (UP) Not ex actly the most cheerful place for wedding, but O. H. Mlttelstadt, mor tician, and Miss Dorothy Thomson, both of Seattle, were married in a local morgue. Left Case of Whisky VANCOUVER, Wash. (UP) Candi date for the year's moss forgetful man the Portlander who bought a case of high-priced Scotch whisxy, then forgot to take it with him whoa he left the state liquor store. By Earl H. Leaf United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI (UP) The Chinese government Is trying to eradicate the ! opium evil In old Cathay, but it's still I about as easy to una a "smoke joint" In any Chinese city today as it was to find a speakeasy In any American 1 city during prohibition. The Chinese populace is taking the opium eradication campaign Just about as seriously as Americans took the Federal Government's efforts to ' stamp out needled beer and bathtub J gin. Having, in days of yore, tasted of the "stolen sweets" of a well-stocked ; cellflr in the United States, we decid ed to forget our trials and tribxilatlons I with China's favorite Illicit pastime and Indulge in a few fanciful poppy dreams. Sing Song House We selected for the scene of our experiment a sing-song house in "Wei Loh Li," the most celebrated passage way of Its kind in the world, off Foo- chow Road, the great pleasure boult- j rard of the Chinese In Shanghai. 1 MWei Loh Li" boasts of probably a hundred sing-song houses within Its narrow confines and is the goal of every ambitious sing-song girl in the Flower Kingdom. Presenting our letters of Introduc tion to the master of the "Small Two Pearls," a sing-song house of some i fame Itself, we explained our wishes in our best Shanghai dialect and were admitted into the sacred precinct., Three of four Chinese clients wer I playing man Jongg, stuffing them selves with everything from bean curds to shark's fins, making walU- walla and listening enraptured to the j high screeching, the wild barbaric ; aongs of the sing-song girls. Opium Room At the far end of the dim-lit. moke-flUed, extravagantly-furnished room could be seen several couches on which opium lamps were burning and trays of smoking paraphernalia were ready for use. After concluding a ritual of polite palaver with the master, we were at last Introduced to Miss Koo Ah-kong, slender, exotic, sole-eyed, parchment-skinned Chinese beauty who was to preside over the opium lamp and aid the slay foreign er in ascending the ladder to the sev enth heaven of poppy-land. She commenced to work Immedia tely, with a long silver instrument she picked up a bit of the opium thick, black syrupy stuff "black rice" the Chinese fondly call It twisting and turning and splrnling It over the thin steady flame of the opium lamp until it was In her opin ion properly cooked, then inserted the sticky mass Into the tiny aperture Of the pipe bowl, whim we sucked on the Jeweled tip of the stem. First Attempt a Flop The first pipeful was a flop, Ah- kong said, because I didn't inhale j deeply enough. On our second and third pipes we Inhaled from the bot- j torn of our detestable toes with the force and violence our lungs could muster. The opium spluttered and congealed, spluttered and melted. burst into flame, smouldered acted i up generally. Ah-kong worked tire lessly, diligently, end was as concen trated on her task as a great surgeon performing some momentous operation. Th.- fourth pipe gave us a sensa tion of relaxation, as If the muscles ' In our body had been tensed for life and were now for the first time find ing complete relaxation. But It was only a passing sensation, perhaps even a product of Imagination, and we de cided we would never emulate De Qulncy's "Confessions of an Opium Eater." In fact, this story is about the best we could do. FARMS FOR CITY SAYS I3NDON (UP) British farm work ers are going "off the land." The latest returns published by the Department of Agriculture show that j 31,500 less regular and casual ma.e j workers were employed on farms dur ing the 1933-34 period, while women end (flrl workers dropped by 0.400. Agriculture in this country has not yet been put Into a position where It could assist materially in the reduc tion of unemployment. Actually, un employment figures are raised by nearly 23,000, due to the decrease In farm workers, which Is not Included J In the ordinary unemployment total. Critics of present government meas ures to aid the agricultural Industry claim that If Britain assisted her farmers to only one-qusrter the ex tent that Italy does, there might be J.OOO.000 on the land Instead of the j present total of 887.700 In Britain nrl ' I Wales. 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